SKIPPER. A barn. CANT.—Also the captain of a Dutch vessel.
TO SKIT. To wheedle. CANT.
SKIT. A joke. A satirical hint.
SKRIP. See SCRIP.
SKULKER. A soldier who by feigned sickness, or other pretences, evades his duty; a sailor who keeps below in time of danger; in the civil line, one who keeps out of the way, when any work is to be done. To skulk; to hide one's self, to avoid labour or duty.
SKY BLUE. Gin.
SKY FARMERS. Cheats who pretend they were farmers in the isle of Sky, or some other remote place, and were ruined by a flood, hurricane, or some such public calamity: or else called sky farmers from their farms being IN NUBIBUS, 'in the clouds.'
SKY PARLOUR. The garret, or upper story.
SLABBERING BIB. A parson or lawyer's band.
SLAG. A slack-mettled fellow, one not ready to resent an
affront.